Human-induced climate change may have caused approximately 1.5 °C of warming by the end of 2023, compared to before the 1700s, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/3ZbHD05

Today in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by Nowakowski_Lab, @ChangLabUCSF & Mircea Teodorescu (UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute) demonstrate the first use of optogenetics to modulate seizure activity at the network level in human brain tissue: nature.com/articles/s4159… John UCSF Broad Stem Cell

Think government ROI is low? In the ‘60s, #NIH-funded researchers Hubel & Wiesel studied how cats’ neurons process visual info—seemed trivial, right? Yet their work led to convolutional neural networks like Hinton’s AlexNet, sparking the AI revolution that’s reshaping the global

Just watched the full House hearing & testimony of NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertignolli. A few takeaways: • the proposed budget, in addition to not increasing for inflation, wants to condense NIH from 27 to 15 institutes. The NIH does not think this is a good idea. 🧵1/?

To say that I am extremely gutted and simultaneously consumed with rage is an understatement.

The first NIH grant I've ever written, with my dream mentor and dream topic, just disappeared. Eliminated today, just like that, thanks to the recent 'Executive Order on Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing' Hundreds of hours of work, just gone.

Pausing aids like FAFSA is all about keeping minorities from going to school. That’s it.

I am thrilled to see my team’s work published in Nature Medicine this morning! We brought together leaders from Johnson & Johnson, Fenway Health, @HarvardMed, and Mass General Brigham to design a roadmap for #LGBTQIA+ engagement and inclusion in clinical research 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Link below.

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above

I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver

I hope this email finds you well because there's no chance it leaves you well

Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is published! See a brief summary below and the original paper linked to the post at the bottom.

lotta “I stand up for science when someone comes for my grants, but won’t stand up for my students and colleagues when my university scapegoats them and tries to quash their right to political speech and their academic freedom” going around

Most rigorous ML paper

UMass Chan Medical School—a public school in the University of Massachusetts system—has rescinded all offers of admission to biomedical graduate students for the 2025–2026 school year

I have ANOTHER postdoc position open here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/250574 Please get in touch if you are interested in intracranial research into human cognition.

Emotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑. But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers Science Magazine. A big team effort and debut paper from Stanford University's new Human Neural Circuitry program. bit.ly/4dEyX7Z

This study by Cao et al. shows that human amygdala and hippocampus neurons encode visual facial features, bridging perception and semantic representations. nature.com/articles/s4156…

An example of biased media these days, dehumanizing one side: Iran killing civilians (which of course is tragic) vs Israel hitting military sites. No, Iranian civilians have been killed in every Israeli attack since Friday (in hundreds so far). Don't rebrand it. #StopTheWar